Apple and Google still represent the bulk of reviewed commits contributing to the ongoing development of WebKit, the open source web browser engine that powers Safari and Chrome, among others. Google ...
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Earlier this month Opera announced that it would be moving from Presto to WebKit as the engine at the core of the browser. The move to Opera WebKit will allow the development team to concentrate more ...
Apple’s WebKit has taken a higher profile in Web Standards terms, following the appointment of the company’s WebKit manager, Maciej Stachowiak, to the World Wide Web Consortium’s HTML Working Group.
Developers Alp Toker and George Wright of Collabora are working on a WebKit-based backend for Nokia's modular Maemo Web Browser that will leverage Nokia's Engine Abstraction Layer and the WebKit GTK ...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a developers’ conference in Australia yesterday he thinks the idea of using Webkit as the rendering engine for Internet Explorer is “interesting” and that his company ...
The open-source WebKit HTML rendering engine is rapidly gaining ground on the Linux platform where it is increasingly being adopted by conventional desktop applications for content display. Ongoing ...
Google's current development strategy of producing Web-based HTML5 cross-platform applications simply enables Apple to continue to act in a predatory manner with iPhone. Now that we've confused our ...
Google's rich Webkit-based GMail experience in iPhone and Android's mobile web browsers are proof enough that native smarphone apps for many types of applications are no longer needed or should be ...
Why isn’t Chrome a part of Android? It’s a question as old as time itself. Or at least a few years old. But given that the same company, Google, makes both products, it never made much sense. Now they ...